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- United States: Subject Matters – Reading, Writing… and Readying for TestsIt’s the best of times and the worst of times, exclaims the unusually Dickensian CNN, for English teachers as they find themselves more accountable than ever for the academic success of their students, while balancing new technologies that change time-honored … Continue reading → […]
- United States: Feds Make ELLs a Priority for Tests Based on Common-Core StandardsThe federal government, notes Education Week, is intending to provide grants for the development of English-language-proficiency assessments that are aligned with the national common-core standards. The proposed grant competition would push the country toward more uniformity for the definition of … Continue reading → […]
- Vietnam: Pilot English Teaching Project is Hit by Staff Shortage and Poor SkillsFactors including a serious lack of facilities, as well as a shortage of qualified teachers have adversely affected the Ministry of Education and Training’s pilot English language teaching programme for primary school children, notes VietnamNet. Read more on this… Post … Continue reading → […]
- Would you have done this for a job?Simple question: would you have done what this person did to try and get a job in the Gulf? She flew me to Qatar on a 1-way ticket (despite my several written requests for a return ticket since it seemed … Continue reading → […]
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Category Archives: india
India: The ‘Khul ja sim sim’ tongue of the world
You can forget “the Queen’s English”, a term that dates back to 1592 and is snobbily defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “the English language as regarded as under the guardianship of the Queen; hence, standard or correct English”. … Continue reading
Asia – Oceania news roundup
Get the lowdown on the world of TEFL in India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka… Delhi Games put accent on sounding British The Delhi Metro is providing English speaking classes for all its employees in preparation for the Commonwealth … Continue reading
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Tagged Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio, House Bill 191
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India: English for Progress
According to the Times of India, as part of its global vision for English, the British Council has launched the programme ‘Project English’ in India and Sri Lanka. The aim is that by 2010 every teacher and learner of English … Continue reading
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Tagged British Council ‘Project English’ in India and Sri Lanka
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India: It’s back to basics for teachers
It’s back to the classroom for English lecturers at various government colleges in the state. Under the project high TEC’ (teaching English through conversation), the commissionerate of collegiate education and the US department of state have organised a training programme … Continue reading
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India: Primary schools to convert ‘fearsome’ English into a friendly language
In an effort to get rid of the fear attached to English language learning among Gujarati medium students in rural areas, suggests the India Express, the Surat District Primary Education Officer (DPEO) has ordered schools to observe Saturdays as English … Continue reading
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India: Multiple factors for scoring difficulty in English
The Times of India notes that a decline in reading habits, a weak foundation vis-a-vis understanding and the lack of expressive skills are the prime factors that continue to make English language a difficult subject to score at the higher … Continue reading
India: A lab to enhance language skills
India: Though not a conventional laboratory with scientific equipment and the like, the Language Laboratory at the Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce (BMCC) is well equipped to impart language training, suggests the Times of India. Established in 2007, the laboratory … Continue reading
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India: Foreign faculty on a mission
India: It is like an annual pilgrimage for them. They come every year in August from Ireland and England to teach English to teachers of primary schools located in rugged hilly areas of Uttarakhand. From the road head, one has … Continue reading
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Tagged Dehradun-based reputed NGO Rural Litigation Empowerment
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Schools adopt the language of change in India
India: Seven-year-old Inaara is busy doing her English comprehension. Pallavi Akkalkotkar, Inaara’s mother, is happy that comprehension is no longer about lifting sentences from the text, by way of an answer. “Inaara has to think for herself, and take the … Continue reading
UP kids call up Californians for an English lesson
India & California: Every afternoon, a group of children in Kannar village, about 30 km from Lucknow, gather in a school to learn English – through cellphones. The handsets are loaded with e-learning games, designed by students of the Dhirubhai … Continue reading